Blog Posts not being summerized

you can’t select summary from settings, that is only for your rss feed

you would need to edit some code. Most likely in index.php, depends what theme you are using

But you should be able to swap out where your theme says the_content and put in the_excerpt to get summaries

so basically i need to edit the index.php with a text editor and find “the_content” and change to “the_excerpt”?

yes that should do it. I say should, as every theme is different.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

And you shouldn’t need a text editor unless that is your preference. WP has a built in theme editor at appearance->editor from your admin

oh right thanks. btw im using the default theme at the moment. i might change later. ill try wat u said n update u in a little while..

The default theme neamed ‘default’? OR the default theme named ‘twenty ten’?

If it’s twentyten, it won’t be in index.php, it’ll be in loop.php. index offloads to loop in that theme.

You wouldn’t want to edit twentyten directly, see https://go.rvoodoo.com/WPchild for more info

hey sorry for the late reply…i tried changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” in a 3rd party theme…and it didnt work…the posts are still huge…and in the original twenty ten theme…there is no “the_content” line in the index.php…

ok i didnt notice that there were more than one “the_content” line…so i changed all but now it does not show the poster image which i need it to appear. any idea how to do that?